a novel site
posted by Clare Sudbery at 2:23 PM
I’m a freelance writer and software engineer, I’ve just sold my second novel, and I can hold thirty-one pencils under each breast. During my 38 years on the planet I’ve been a Scrabble fanatic, a trapeze artist, a maths and philosophy graduate, a cleaner, a revolutionary socialist, a hedonist, a lesbian vegetarian women-only workers’ co-op member and a meat-eating heterosexual computer programmer. I live in inner city Manchester, in a decrepit house with bits of old ship in the cellar, a dismembered shop dummy in the garden, a child on the sofa and a journalist in the bed. I once went to trapeze lessons for a whole year. I loved being upside down and in the sky, but I wasn’t very good at it. I was never really a trapeze artist. An interview with me. Me Me Me Me Me.
35 Comments:
Hello!
[this was a test]
Ah, but we can *imagine* being your gussets.
In retrospect, that sounds a bit Charles-and-Camilla-y.
Anyway, it's a sufficient thrill to be the first entry (apart from you) in the new guestbook.
All the best with the new-found interactivity.
Rob
PS I've ordered your book!
Now here's a thing. Is it considered de rigeur to sign one's own guestbook twice?
I mean, I'm not really signing it. I'm just using it as a means to say... Rob, you are great. And you ordered my book. How ace is that? I do feel you should be rewarded in some way though. Well apart from receiving a book, which is of course worth its weight in gold.
If you like I can send you a signed sticker to stick in the front, how's that?
And here's a bonus snog: XXX
Damn. I think it might be spelt rigueur. Although that also looks wrong. If I wasn't incredibly lazy, I would look it up.
"word" doesn't mind "rigueur" if it's any help. i was, btw, all ready to be impressed with four signings in your very new guest book 'til i noticed three of them are you :) i'm new here
Welcome k! Take a pew, have a cup of tea. And an almost-fresh towel, just in case you spill any.
I suspect this guestbook is going to end up having at least twice as many signings as it really does, cos I'm no going to be able to resist saying "Hello" back whenever people sign it... well it's only polite, isn't it?
Plus I feel the need to point out that there is another rogue signing which ended up in the wrong place (here), but I'm pretty sure it was meant to be here. Well, that's what I'm telling myself, anyway. When I'm talking to myself, that is. Which I am at the mo, cos I've been quite good today. Despite having the 'flu. I may fall out with myself again later though...
fantastic blog and such amazing tits. keep up the good work - i hope to link to you one day, but i'm so lazy. it'll happen, you'll see. what's your book about ?
Blimey Zoe, that was quick. You're all those omni-things (omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent) aren't you? In fact you're omni-omni.
My book is about... oh help, I really should be better at answering this qu by now. And now the toddler is shouting for me... oh, I remember now. It's about Levenshulme, lesbians and LSD. And mysterious dead bodies. And stuff like that. Try looking here.
Missed the guest book previously.
Personally I get cross when people are reluctant to sign a guest book. Small price to pay when you give them bed and board. And over the years it's fascinating to see who came. One turned out to be a convicted murderer.
hello there - I came along to have a look via troubled diva because you live in Manchester and are going to the Big Chill. Me too, though I've never been before. A load of our friends from across the UK are going and our friend is DJing, so I have a feeling it's going to be the best thing in the world ever. Apart from the pongy toilets...
Hello, Clare. I came across your blog via Michele's site. I have enjoyed reading through your blog. I'll be back here and there. :-) -Marie
OK, so the name, whats in it? What is a boob pencil?
I fell here, found out you lived in Manchester (I did for 12 years) and you got your novel published (I wish).
Blimey, hello. It's a bit of a graveyard over here, I'm afraid. Nobody ever signs the guestbook. Sorry about the dust.
As for the name... well, actually the picture came first. No, that's not true. The concept came first. I discovered I could fit seventeen pencils under one breast, and got very proud of myself, thereby turning the famous maxim on its head. Because apparently we women are supposed to get terribly despondent if we can fit even one pencil under our boobies. It means they're excessively droopy. Bollocks to that, I say. It simply means I'm well-hung.
Anyway, that led onto various discussions over on the Big Chill forum (forum.bigchill.net), and I felt the need to draw an explanatory picture... and then there was some pondering over whether or not one might be able to write with a pencil held under one's boob...
And then I decided to start a blog. And I wondered what image I could use in the background. And I remembered the picture I'd drawn. And then I wondered about a name. And it came to me in a flash. Boob Pencil. The idea being that maybe I write the whole thing using a pencil clutched under one breast.
So there you go.
I was going to call it Pencil Boob, but I decided Boob Pencil sounded better. Can't really explain why. It's a rhythm thing. I'm a big fan of rhythm where words are concerned.
Of course, you're never actually going to come back and read this explanation, are you?
Oh well.
Well thanks for clearing that one up. I thought I was imaginative but I never came up with that. I think that explanation should be in your FAQ (if you had one that is).
heers for all the 80's 'Jackie' comics, Clare xxxx
Obviously I meant 'Cheers' LOL
God, I remember Jackie. And I remember you and your hair and your mirrored skirts. Did you used to borrow my Jackies, then? I don't remember that.
I do remember those photo-love-story magazines my sister used to read, and my mum said I wasn't allowed, cos they used to hint at sexual shenanigans.
Hello.
I saw Boob Pencil on someone's Blog and went, "Hehehe... Booooob Pencil." And that's how I came to visit. Glad that moment of schoolboy amusement brought me here.
This is the first guest book I've ever signed. Hello Clare. Who's boobs are they next to your face in your profile pic? I might become your internet stalker! What do you think?
Hello!
Nobody ever signs my guest book. Then again, it's not exactly easy to find. It just took me a while of hunting.
Sadly they are inanimate boobs, and are the possessions of a headless, armless, legless shop dummy sprayed gold and planted under a bush in our back garden.
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This is the first guest book I've ever signed. Hello Clare. Who's boobs are they next to your face in your profile pic? I might become your internet stalker! What do you think? tnk about me evista
Blimey, it never occurred to me anyone would think they were real boobs!
The pic was actually taken in my garden, and that is a headless dismembered shop dummy spray-painted gold, which lives under one of our bushes.
The background on this page scares the hell out of me!
Yeah Wilds, you're not the only one.
very nice site, indeed. make an advance
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Just ordered the book.
Thanks,
Brandon Hopkins
Just placed my order!
Nice to be here.
Hi!
Today I send you an email from Sweden...
My name is Anna and I´m 36, soon to be 37 yers old and I just love your sens of humour!!!
Have fun!!!
Hi Clare!!
Today I sent you an email from Sweden... read it please!
Now I just wanted to say that I love your humour!!!
Anna
Sorry... did'nt intend to be nagging...
I'm new here.. and I'm a dumb swede..
Did'nt notice that my first comment actually been sent...
Sorry!!!
Hiya
Interesting and humourous site.
Came across it by chance,quite funny!
Well done.
Hello, great site! Im new to blogging and finding it all very exciting... x
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